Universal Basic Income is the idea that everyone should be paid an income, it is sometimes called a citizens wage or a social dividend, although sometimes the labels are applied depending on different ways of paying for it.
The idea of UBI is that it is an income, in theory your occupation is separate from your subsistence, possibly even your earnings. Supplement your UBI with earnings, business revenue, or simply invest your time in some other useful way, care taking, child rearing, home making, whatever.
There is another idea, an alternative idea, called Universal Basic Services, instead of providing income credit, vouchers or just plain money to citizens there would be services provided free of charge at the point of service.
I have heard some people talk about a sort of hybridization of these two different ideas, which I think, sure, its possible, I can conceive of how it would work but I tend to think of them as alternatives one to the other.
UBI could allow for a change in the sphere of government as a direct provider of goods and services, permit the emergence of a more pluralist economy. Whereas a UBS involves more direct provision, not less. The role of government (central or decentralized) planning, or other monopoly structure, is markedly different in each model. The role of consumer and consumerism is different in each too.
Of the two which do you think is a good or bad idea and why? Maybe you think both are a bad idea, that's cool too, come tell us about it.
The idea of UBI is that it is an income, in theory your occupation is separate from your subsistence, possibly even your earnings. Supplement your UBI with earnings, business revenue, or simply invest your time in some other useful way, care taking, child rearing, home making, whatever.
There is another idea, an alternative idea, called Universal Basic Services, instead of providing income credit, vouchers or just plain money to citizens there would be services provided free of charge at the point of service.
I have heard some people talk about a sort of hybridization of these two different ideas, which I think, sure, its possible, I can conceive of how it would work but I tend to think of them as alternatives one to the other.
UBI could allow for a change in the sphere of government as a direct provider of goods and services, permit the emergence of a more pluralist economy. Whereas a UBS involves more direct provision, not less. The role of government (central or decentralized) planning, or other monopoly structure, is markedly different in each model. The role of consumer and consumerism is different in each too.
Of the two which do you think is a good or bad idea and why? Maybe you think both are a bad idea, that's cool too, come tell us about it.